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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

as the number-one threat. What disturbed Pekunlu even more than the
chapters invalidating Darwinism was the section you are currently
reading, which is also available in The Evolution Deceit. Pekunlu
admonished his handful of readers not to let themselves be carried away
by the indoctrination of idealism and to keep their faith in materialism. He
used Vladimir I. Lenin, leader of Russia's bloody communist revolution, as
a reference. Advising everyone to read Lenin's century-old book
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, Pekunlu only repeated Lenin's ignorant
counsel to "not think over this issue, or you will lose track of materialism
and be carried away by religion." In an article for the aforementioned
periodical, Pekunlu quoted the following lines from Lenin:
Once you deny the objective reality [that is] given us in sensation, you have
already lost every weapon against fideism [reliance on faith alone], for you
have slipped into agnosticism or subjectivism—and that is all that fideism
requires. A single claw ensnared, and the bird is lost. And our Machists [an
adherent of Machism, a modern positivist philosophy], have all become
ensnared in idealism, that is, in a diluted, subtle fideism; They became
ensnared from the moment they took "sensation" not as an image of the
external world, but as a special "element." It is nobody's sensation, nobody's
mind, nobody's spirit, nobody's will. 401

These words explicitly demonstrate how the reality that Lenin found
alarming and wanted to expunge, both from his own mind and the minds
of his "comrades" disturbs contemporary materialists too, in a similar way.
But Pekunlu and other materialists suffer a yet greater distress because
they know that this certain fact is now being advanced in a way that's far
more explicit convincing than a hundred years ago. For the first time, this
subject is being explained in a truly irrefutable way.
Still, nevertheless, a great number of materialist scientists take a
superficial stand against the fact that no one can ever have direct
experience of the original of matter. The subject covered in this chapter is
one of the most important and most exciting that a person can ever run
across. It's fairly unlikely that these scientists would have faced such a
crucial subject before, but the reactions and the stance they employ in their
speeches and articles still hint at how superficial their comprehension
really is.
Some materialists' reactions show that their blind adherence to

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